(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Xu Na is a thirty-eight year old oil painter. She lived at Lianxiang Xiluyuan at Fangshan area in Beijing.
Xu Na started practicing Falun Gong in 1996. After the persecution started, Xu Na, along with other practitioners in Beijing helped many practitioners from other provinces to appeal in Beijing. She arranged their accommodations and organized experience sharing among practitioners. In August 1999, she was illegally detained for fifteen days for attending an experience sharing conference in Fangshan. She went to appeal again in October and was detained for another thirty days as a consequence. On November 19, 2000, she was once again detained for thirty days. In 2001, Li Xiaoli, a practitioner from Siping area in northeast China, (who was later tortured to death), stayed in Xu Na's home. Xiaoli was arrested when she was distributing Falun Gong materials, and police found out the location of Xu Na's rented apartment based on Xiaoli's phone number. On July 3, 2001, Beijing City National Security Office arrested Xu Na in Tongzhou. In November, she was illegally sentenced to five years in prison by Fangshan Middle-level Court.
Xu Na was initially sent to Tuanhe Juvenile Detention Center. Because she firmly refused to denounce Falun Gong, police forced her to do hard labor that was usually only assigned to inmates who had been trained for one year. They forced her to perform the most difficult procedure in making shoes - working on 600 shoe soles per day.
After work, while other inmates were allowed to rest, she was taken to an isolation room and subjected to brainwashing until 1:00 a.m. Former practitioners who had renounced Falun Gong were required to brainwash her. She then was taken back to her cell by inmates who were specifically assigned to monitor and "transform" her. At 6:00 a.m., she had to get up and go back to work. The collaborators took turns brainwashing her and also tried to force her to step on Teacher's photo. Xu Na firmly refused, so she was deprived of sleep and subjected to various means of torture. Although exhausted physically and mentally, Xu Na never yielded and remained steadfast in her belief in Dafa.
One time at a line-up, the head of the prison passed by. Xu Na ran out from the line and stopped him to protest all the tortures she had suffered. She demanded that the torture stop, and explained why it was wrong. Her action shocked all people there, as in that horrible environment, Dafa practitioners never publicly requested anything. Her righteous action and thoughts suppressed the evil. Since then her environment improved considerably. She was not "transformed," and she constantly clarified the truth. Her compassion and righteous deeds moved many inmates and police. When Xu was transferred over one year later, inmates sent her off with tears in their eyes.
In November 2002, Xu Na was transferred to Beijing women's prison. There were three so-called "transformation teams" and one finishing team (to detain those transformed and near the end of their terms). Each "transformation team" had seventy or eighty practitioners with a total of over two hundred practitioners detained in the prison. Every week, two or three more practitioners arrived.
Xu Na suffered inhumane tortures. She was repeatedly beaten up. The authorities ordered seven or eight inmates to beat her up, tie her up in cross-legged position, deprive her of sleep, and to fingerprint so-called "exposure and criticism" statements against her will. They left her out on the snow-covered ground, and did not allow her to wash for over a month, etc. But she always kept a righteous mind. She is the only practitioner in the women's prison who has not been "transformed" and has won the respect of both guards and inmates. Xu Na was frequently transferred from one team to another. Every time she left one team, all the inmates would send her off with tears in their eyes.
On March 19, 2003, a murder occurred at Beijing women's prison. Under the incitement of Tian Fengqing, the head of forth prison area, former practitioners who had turned against Dafa, including Li Xiaomei, Li Xiaobing, Jin Hongwei, Liu Shuxia and others beat practitioner Dong Cui to death in the rear stockroom of the prison. After the incident someone wrote an anonymous letter to Beijing City Labor Camp Bureau exposing the crime. After investigation, Tian Fengqing was transferred to another prison area. It is said that later the prison offered the family of Dong Cui 30,000 yuan hoping to hide their crime. They suspected that it was Xu Na who wrote the letter, but Xu Na firmly denied it. Since then, her normal visiting rights were cancelled. It has been eighteen months since her family was last allowed to see her.
In March or April of 2005, Xu Na was once again transferred to isolation. Knowing that she would not be "transformed," the guards dared not mention "transformation" and ordered the collaborators not to mention it in front of her either. Otherwise they would be punished. They only asked several inmates to stay with her. She could do whatever she wanted in the cell. When Xu Na wanted to wash and clean, they would drive everyone out from the cleaning room and let her use it alone. If she wanted to use the toilet, they would drive everyone out from the bathroom and let her in. When Xu Na asked to talk with certain criminal, they would arrange it. Their purpose was to move Xu Na. However, three months had passed and Xu Na did not give in. Then three guards took turns attempting to brainwash her. They first forced her to watch video slandering Dafa and asked her to take notes while watching, and discuss it afterward. However, this did not work. The guards all said that they had no way to deal with her.
Xu Na has publicly declared that she will appeal to higher authorities against police officer Tian Fengqing, who incited inmates to torture her and other practitioners. She will also expose the murder. Knowing that he/she would be in trouble, Tian Fengqing requested to be removed from active duty. Tian has been transferred to the administration department in the prison and is no longer in charge of inmates.
Xu Na will not be released until July 3 based on her sentence. Here we call on all righteous people in the world to pay attention to Xu Na's case and help to release her.
January 12, 2006
